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"The government-funded Institute for Animal Health's Pirbright Laboratory, which is studying the disease, is located some six kilometers from the affected farm. A number of sources reported that it hosted an international drill last month during which live viruses of foot-and-mouth disease were used." - Itar-Tass

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The organisation suspected of leaking the virus from its Pirbright laboratory has been asked to make up 300,000 doses of vaccine to help fight the disease. - Merial to make 300000 FMD vaccines

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The previous outbreak of foot and mouth in the UK was in 2001.

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In 2001, the UK newspaper The Sunday Express wrote:

'In December 2000, two months before the Foot and Mouth crisis began, a container of foot-and-mouth virus went missing from a laboratory at Porton Down in Wiltshire, which houses the UK government's Secret Weapons Research Establishment.'" - Foot and Mouth / BBC News UK Sophie row dominates papers

"A Republican delegation led by Senator Phil Gramm slipped into London (summer 2000) to visit the ‘unelectable’ William Haig and propose British membership of NAFTA...

"Just after Bush’s confirmation by the Reagan-nominated US Supreme Court, a thief walked through fences and walls and got into the British Ministry of Defence Laboratory at Porton Down, a maximum security facility which contains a wide range of the most dangerous viruses and poisons in the world.

"The thief knew what he was looking for – he escaped with a phial of foot and mouth virus.

"In the first stage, limited biological panics will be metered upon the public (in Britain through Porton Down, the same people who brought you Foot and Mouth) in order to train them into producing the desired response...." - Source: Bird Flu And Social Darwinism

"A dead swan was found in the coastal Fife village of Cellardyke, about nine miles from St Andrews...The man who found the swan in Cellardyke, Dan Young, a researcher at St Andrews University, said he had been alerted by a friend, who thought a heron was lying in the harbour...

"By coincidence, yesterday Defra was conducting its first national emergency simulation of procedures in the event of a bird flu outbreak..."( Exercise Hawthorn)

Staged-managed manufactured crises are always paralleled by drills of the same nature. This provides culpable deniability if any government agency is caught with their hands in the cookie jar. They can say it was just part of the drill...A consultancy agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th...Wargames running on the morning of 9/11 simulated planes crashing into high visibility buildings on the US east coast. These drills were enough to confuse air traffic controllers about the real world nature of the actual hijacked planes thereby slowing response times and enabling them to find their targets. In addition the exercises also provided culpable deniability...Patricia Doyle, PhD also reported that Foot and Mouth exercises were being run by the British government immediately before the outbreak was made public...For those who doubt the veracity of a British government plot to once again eviscerate the livelihoods of farmers (the biggest power block opposing Blair) in an act of 'Agraterrorism', just consider the fact that a vial of the Foot and Mouth virus was supposedly 'stolen' from Porton Down bio-weapons facility before the 2001 outbreak took place. The Sunday Express reported that it was released deliberately and could have possibly been the source of the outbreak two months later.~~

St Andrews University technician Tina Briscoe was the friend of Dan Young who alerted him to the bird in the harbour. (Bird flu: the deadly delay)

Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, University of St. Andrews, Scotland

"The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland has been the leading academic institute researching terrorism for the past twenty years... "Members of CSTPV have been advisors to the U.S. government and leading policymaking groups.RMS (Rand) is currently sponsoring the RMS Terrorism Research Fellow, at CSTPV, University of St. Andrews."~~

According to Murdo MacLeod of Scotland on Sunday, Scottish civil servants are to have contingency plans in place to deal with various threats.

According to Scotland on Sunday: "A team headed by Gregor Lindsay, a civil servant and RAF reservist, is working in Perth..."Scenarios which the unit has plans for include: A lethal bird flu pandemic sweeping across Scotland..."

The ‘Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence’ at the University of St Andrews:

"The Centre possesses a unique database on terrorist incidents going back to 1968, based on collaboration with a US think tank (‘the RAND-St Andrews database on Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict’). Bruce Hoffman, the founder of the Centre is now a vice-president of Rand and chief of its Washington office.

"The current chair of the Centre’s advisory board is Professor Paul Wilkinson , who began his career as an education officer in the RAF. Professor Wilkinson has obtained funding from the ESRC for research on the domestic management of terrorist attacks in the UK. Director of the Centre is Magnus Ranstrop, a specialist on Lebanon’s Hizbollah and a CNN expert on Al-Qaida...

"Dr Rohan Gunaratna claims affiliation to a diverse band of think tanks including fellowships at the St Andrews’ Centre, where he completed his PhD, but also the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Israel and the Institute of Strategic Studies, Pakistan.

"If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States.... who best to be able to effect a quarantine? One option is the use of a military that's able to plan and move." - President Bush, October 4th 2005.

"... The Bush cabinet was on Cipro, the anthrax fighting antibiotic, on the day of September 11, weeks before the first anthrax attack took place.

"Widespread fears of a bird flu pandemic have helped spark a sales surge at Swiss drugs group Roche, which makes Tamiflu.

"Roche, which is the world's only manufacturer of Tamiflu, revealed this morning that group sales had surged to more than £11.1 billion in the third quarter, driven by 'significant growth' in sales of the drug."

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The UK Government spent 32 million pounds buying smallpox vaccine from a firm whose boss was Paul Drayson. Paul Drayson, had donated 50,000 pounds to the Labour Party just weeks before the contract was finalised.